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time there was a serious religious vein in his nature, and he had no sympathy with the coarser forms of theological liberalism.

Nettleship was the author of many articles and reviews for the ‘Academy,’ ‘Journal of Philology,’ and ‘Classical Review,’ and there are some few papers of his in American and German classical periodicals. He superintended edition after edition of Conington's ‘Vergil’ and ‘Persius,’ bringing them up to date, and incorporating valuable additions of his own. He edited for the Clarendon Press the ‘Essays of Mark Pattison’ (1889), and the second edition of Pattison's ‘Casaubon’ (1892). In conjunction with Dr. J. E. Sandys, he revised and edited the English translation of Seyffert's ‘Dictionary of Classical Antiquities,’ London, 1891; he was one of the writers in the third edition of Smith's ‘Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities,’ and contributed a critically edited text of Vergil to the Cambridge ‘Corpus Poetarum.’ An essay by him on ‘The present Relations between Classical Research and Classical Education in England’ appeared in the ‘Essays on the Endowment of Research,’ edited by Dr. Appleton, London, 1876; and he also drew up the memoir prefixed to the volume of the Rev. T. H. Steel's ‘Sermons,’ London, 1882, and the life of Conington in this dictionary (vol. xii.). The following writings of his were published in a separate form: ‘Suggestions introductory to a Study of the Æneid,’ Oxford, 1875; ‘The Roman Satura,’ Oxford, 1878; ‘Ancient Lives of Vergil, with an Essay on the Poems of Vergil in connection with his Life and Times,’ Oxford, 1879; ‘Vergil’ in the series of ‘Classical Writers’ edited by J. R. Green, London, 1879; ‘Moritz Haupt: a Public Lecture,’ Oxford, 1879; ‘Lectures and Essays on Subjects connected with Latin Literature and Scholarship,’ Oxford, 1885; ‘Passages for Translation into Latin Prose, with an Introduction,’ London, 1887; ‘Contributions to Latin Lexicography,’ Oxford, 1889; ‘The Moral Influence of Literature: Classical Education in the Past and at Present. Two popular Addresses,’ London, 1890.

NETTLESHIP, RICHARD LEWIS (1846–1892), fellow and tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, the youngest brother of Henry Nettleship [q. v.], was born on 17 Dec. 1846 at Kettering. He was educated first at a preparatory school at Wing, Buckinghamshire, and afterwards at Uppingham under Edward Thring [q. v.] Elected to a scholarship at Balliol in 1864, he came into residence at Oxford in October 1865, and won a long series of university distinctions, the Hertford scholarship in 1866, the Ireland in 1867, the Gaisford Greek verse prize in 1868, a Craven scholarship in 1870, and the Arnold prize in 1873. Like his brother, he disappointed expectations by taking only a ‘second’ in literæ humaniores in 1869. In the same year, however, he was elected to a fellowship, and some time after appointed to a tutorship at Balliol. As a tutor he eventually came to take the place of his friend, Thomas Hill Green [q. v.], in the philosophic teaching of the college. The strong and lasting impression he made on his pupils and friends was largely due to his extremely interesting personality—a strange combination of intellectual acuteness and singular modesty and diffidence in matters of opinion. With the exception of an essay on ‘The Theory of Education in Plato's Republic’ contributed to the volume entitled ‘Hellenica’ edited by Mr. Evelyn Abbott (London, 1880), and a valuable memoir of T. H. Green prefixed to the third volume of his ‘Works’ (London, 1880), he published nothing, not even his Arnold prize essay; for after working at the subject, ‘The Normans in Italy and Sicily,’ for several years, he ultimately handed over to another the large collection of materials he had made for a book on it.

Nettleship, besides possessing the family love of music, was fond of all outdoor exercises, and, as an undergraduate, rowed in his college boat. He died on 25 Aug. 1892 from exposure in the course of an attempt to ascend Mont Blanc, and was buried at Chamounix. A tablet in his memory was placed in the antechapel of Balliol College, and a scholarship tenable at the college by a student of music was founded by his pupils and friends.